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British Government Goes to the Web with Jacada.


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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2000

Government Agency Meets British Prime Minister's Objective of

Government Modernization modernization

Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family,
 

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), a leading provider of e-business infrastructure software, today announced that Her Majesty's Land Registry (HM Land Registry Land Registry (officially known under the Land Registration Act 2002 as Her Majesty's Land Registry) is a British Governmental organisation created in 1862. Land Registry is responsible for publicly recording interests in land in England and Wales and reports to the ) has officially launched a new online system - Land Registry Direct - in line with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's proclamation to modernize the UK government. The new system has been enhanced by Jacada's e-business solutions. Land Registry Direct was launched today in London at a press conference hosted by the Lord Chancellor lord chancellor
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, Lord Irvine, and Chief Land Registrar, Peter Collis.

Property professionals in England and Wales England and Wales are both constituent countries of the United Kingdom, that together share a single legal system: English law. Legislatively, England and Wales are treated as a single unit (see State (law)) for the conflict of laws.  will benefit from faster, more efficient title searches for land information. Additionally, the online system will provide lower fees that are typically associated with these searches.

HM Land Registry guarantees the titles and records the ownership of all registered land in England and Wales. The new system will significantly increase the speed of service and ease of use for existing automated customers while reducing turnaround times (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time.  from one week to a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
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 for customers who relied on the antiquated manual process. For example, the system will dramatically speed up the loan process by delivering efficient, timely and accurate land information to lenders. This new technology will initially be used by some 2000 customers with the broad aim being to significantly expand this customer base.

"The implementation of Jacada's e-business solution has helped set the direction for the UK Government's new Land Registry Direct system," said Jacada President Mike Potts. "We have taken the existing applications that were designed and developed over a six-year period and successfully applied web-enabled Java application A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet.  technology to the system in under three months. Our technology provides a cost-effective solution that gives fast, secure access and delivers a valuable government service electronically to the benefit of virtually every potential property owner in England and Wales."

The Chief Land Registrar and Chief Executive of the agency, Peter Collis said, "With the help of Jacada, the Land Registry has been able to offer a new online service to the benefit of its customers in a very short space of time. It has been extremely helpful to be able to call on Jacada's expertise while developing Land Registry Direct."

The Prime Minister's proclamation to modernize the government declared the use of new technologies as a means to make significant changes for the better in the delivery of government services. The Government e-business strategy to modernize government states that all departments will have initial e-business strategies in place by October 2000 with the longer term target of offering all government services online by 2005. HM Land Registry has been at the forefront of government in providing a range of services electronically.

Jacada(R) for Java makes it possible for HM Land Registry to give online access to its mainframe-based Land Registry system without making any changes to the existing application. This solution generates a robust graphical client interface that is secure and browser independent. The new system is a joint solution provided by Jacada Europe Ltd. and Netron Ltd., Jacada's authorized distributor in the UK.

About Jacada Ltd. - Founded in 1990, Jacada Ltd. provides a complete software infrastructure to rapidly transform legacy systems into e-business and wireless solutions and to empower enterprise developers to build Internet applications. Jacada operates globally with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia; Herzliya, Israel; and London, England. Jacada can be reached at www.jacada.com or at 1-800-773-9574.

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